Top Senate Dems ask Azar to explain about-face on risk corridors

Modern Healthcare: The Trump administration's inconsistency on risk corridor payments is sowing more confusion in the individual insurance market, two leading Senate Democrats told HHS Secretary Alex Azar in a letter on Wednesday.

Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Patty Murray of Washington, the ranking Democrats of the Senate Finance and health committees, are pushing Azar to disclose the accounting practices that the administration used to justify its apparent about-face earlier this year on making risk corridor payments owed to ACA exchange carriers.

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